Sgail, Umbris Camp, & Fel Wrong Temporarily Closed

[+Nyx]

The problem with fel wrong was that it was being abused excessively for farming gold, ointments, and weapon XP. Literally all I did was remove the additional ointment drops from the spawners, so now they are the same as they would be anywhere else in fel that doesn't force additional oints to drop. Then I reduced the gold and the weapon XP for the entire dungeon.

While this might seem frustrating to some players, it's a necessary step. Colibri is always very cautious about letting us do new and exciting content because of the increased gold and item drops. So, we're tapering it down in areas that are being abused, and in new areas where we're adding additional spawns on top of the norm (such as my dungeon revamps). This is a bit of a happy-medium compromise. Colibri gets to worry less about inflation, and the players get new content and/or old content freshened up a bit. There are still plenty of places to farm the various goodies any given player would like to farm, and even more content to be added in coming months.

[Cornbread]

Yeah, I understand the reason and was definitely one who complained about the abuse. I certainly appreciate any and all effort you guys put forth to make me have more fun while here. I just wanted to give a little feedback on my experience there. I'm pretty sure the abuse is why ointments sharply fell from 7500 to 2800 and then remained there for quite awhile. Not to mention the insane leveling which used to be possible there and farming of materials, gold and tokens. Just honestly cannot see a reason for anyone to go there now with the XP being virtually non existent and the abysmal amount of gold that can be made there.

[+Nyx]

yeah, we were concerned about that. If the traffic in there tapers off too much, we'll work on making a cool quest for it or something, as I mentioned before. It just won't be able to come for awhile because V and I have a number of projects big and small we want to get finished up before spring break. Since fel Wrong was Mocha's dungeon and she's likely not coming back any time soon, we're just not entirely sure what to do with it without "ruining" her original vision for it. It'll take some time to figure out the best, most respectful and useful way to handle that issue.

[Cornbread]

Sounds good, and always waiting for +V's next mob to kill me.

[+Nyx]

Umbris is now open once more. There have been various changes noted below.

Changes
- Healing has been diminished by a significant amount.
- There is only one entrance and exit point from the camp.
- To exit, you must flip the switch and wait 10 seconds. A moongate will open for you to step through.
- If you are dead and need to exit, approach the switch, and you will automatically be moved out of the camp.
- The previous Umbris quests have remained unchanged.
- There are a couple of areas we are still working on and entrance to them has been blocked until we are ready.
- All mortal strike mobs have been removed.
- Gold and token drops have been slightly modified to help fight inflation. Basically all this means is that previously we were giving extra gold on top of what the mob would normally drop. We found that too much gold was flowing in from Umbris being farmed and have removed the "above and beyond" gold drops from the mobs. Their base gold drops have not been reduced.
- Ointment drops have been modified to prevent damage to their market value.
- Weapon XP has been drastically reduced.


Enjoy

[Layfon Alseif]

Sound like decent changes can't wait to check it out when I have time.

[Pi0NEER]

Nice, can't wait to see the challenge!

[Cornbread]

Well, first opinions of it are it's definitely possible for me to do quests and I don't see any way newish people can. So mission accomplished. I was hoping it would be a nice place to farm still, but as the 350 or so gold per mob that is not the case along with the diminished ointments. What I would love to see and I don't know when or where or if you would ever do is a place that is decent to farm ointments with minimal gold or a place to farm gold with minimal ointments for people with LOTS of relayers. Currently the best way to farm is breaking out the ol' runebook and flipping all over the place, as discussed ad nauseum. Maybe one day...

[Yoda]

well for ointments the prism of light isn't bad at all..

overall the changes sound solid

[Locke]

Just want to know if sgail will reopen eventually :)... this place is epic!

peace ! :)